Andrew Ayers

4 weeks ago | ribaj.com | Andrew Ayers

Back in 2007, in what seems like another world – one where Muammar Gaddafi was still president of Libya, Brexit was not a referendum issue, and architects’ expertise was taken seriously by governments – the then French president Nicolas Sarkozy announced the appointment of a think-tank to come up with ideas for the future of Paris and its hinterland.

1 month ago | architecturalrecord.com | Andrew Ayers

ProjectsBuildings by TypeSnapshotTransportation Architecture “This is a building with no facade!” proclaims Dominique Perrault gleefully as he ushers a gaggle of journalists around his latest achievement, the gargantuan Gare de Villejuif-Gustave Roussy. A major interchange on the Grand Paris Express, the French capital’s new suburban metro network, the station currently serves the extended Line 14, which now links the center to Orly Airport.

1 month ago | architecturalrecord.com | Andrew Ayers

ProjectsBuildings by TypeSnapshotTransportation Architecture “This is a building with no facade!” proclaims Dominique Perrault gleefully as he ushers a gaggle of journalists around his latest achievement, the gargantuan Gare de Villejuif-Gustave Roussy. A major interchange on the Grand Paris Express, the French capital’s new suburban metro network, the station currently serves the extended Line 14, which now links the center to Orly Airport.

1 month ago | architecturalrecord.com | Andrew Ayers

The price of freedom is always high. When, in 1861, the principality of Monaco sought to ensure its independence, it ceded 95 percent of its then territory to France. Reduced to a tiny dot on the map, the sovereign city-state—which ceased taxing residents in 1869, thanks to the enormous income generated by its casino—expanded its territory seven times between 1907 and 2002. On each occasion, land was wrested from the sea, taking Monaco’s surface area to a total of 0.8 square miles.

1 month ago | architecturalrecord.com | Andrew Ayers

Architecture NewsOpinion “Everything is architecture,” he famously declared, and just as infamously reduced it to a series of pills designed to procure spatial and sensorial experiences without going to the bother and expense of constructing a building.